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EVOLUTION  AND  NATURAL  SELECTION  IN 
THE  LIGHT  OF  THE  NEW  CHURCH. 


BY   EDMUND    SWIFT,   JR, 


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During  many  years'  microscopical  examination  of  the 
lower  and  minute  forms  of  life  the  writer,  while  observing 
the  beauty  and  variety  of  their  external  form,  their  wonder- 
fully intricate  interior  organization,  and  the  perfect  adapta- 
tion of  every  part  of  each  tiny  organism  to  accomplish  its 
own  special  work,  has  frequently  been  led  to  inquire  into 
the  truth  of  the  widely  accepted  Darwinian  theories  of 
Evolution  and  Natural  Selection.     Believing,  as  he  does, 
after  very  careful  consideration,  their  entire  failure  to  ac^ 
count  for  the  existence  of  the  numerous  distinct  species 
of  plants  and  animals  in  the  world  around  us,  he  ventures, 
on  the  basis  of  New  Church  philosophy,  to  lay  before  the 
reader  a  few  thoughts  on  the  subject.      The  information 
contained  in  the  Writings  of  Swedenborg  of  the  Divine 
method  and  plan  of  Creation  is  of  a  far  loftier  and  more 
interior  character  than  anything  contained  in  the  theories 

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and  speculations  of  our  modern  scientists,  even  admitting 
tlie  undoubtedly  great  value  of  their  essentially  scientific 
investigations,  that  is,  their  observations  of  and  reasonings 
liom  proven  facts,  in  which  true  science  consists. 

The  theory  of  Evolution  as.  taught  by  Darwin  and  his  t 

disciples  is,  that  some  thing  or  some  power  created,  from 
material  substances,  a  living  germ,  and  from  it,  by  some 
law  or  force  inherent  in  those  substances,  all  other  material 
iorms  were  evolved  or  developed  without  any  definite  plan 
or  without  any  necessary  sentient  all-controlling  power. 
The  theory,  in  a  condensed  form,  has  been  expressed  in 
the  following  terms :  "  That  the  earliest  organisms  were 
the  natural  product  of  the  interactions  of  ordinary  inor- 
ganic matter  and  force.  That  all  the  forms  of  animal  and 
vegetable  life  were  successively  developed  from  the  earliest 
and  simplest  organit^ms.  That  man  is  only  a  higher  animal 
and  the  lineal  descendant  of  apes." 

The  doctrine  of  Creation  as  taught  by  the  system  of 
New  Church  philosophy  may  briefly  be  defined  as  follows : 
All  substances  and  forces  in  the  material  world  are,  in  and 
of  themselves,  inert  or  dead,  but  they  are  continually 
vivified  by  the  creative  life  or  vital  force  within ;  this  life 
being,  primarily,  in  and  from  God  the  Creator,  who  is 
Life  Itself.  All  vital  forces  exist  in  the  spiritual  world, 
which  is  as  a  living  soul  wlthui  though  distinct  from  the 
material  world ;  even  as  the  soul  of  man  is  within  though 
distinct  from  his  material  body ;  or  as  the  "cause"  is  within 
though  distinct  from  the  "  efi'ect."  All  substances  and  f1 
forces  in  the  material  world  are  "  effects"  of  substances  ex- 
isting, and  of  forces  operating  in  the  spiritual  world — the 
world  of  "  causes ;"  spiritual  things  being  media  whereby 
the  animating  life  from  God  is  conveyed  to  inanimate  ma- 


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terial  things.     During  the  process  of  Creation,  as  each  suc- 
ceeding form  was  created  in  the  spiritual  world,  or,  in  other 
words,  evolved  from  the  Divine  31ind,  so  they  were  clothed 
with,  or  embodied  in,  corresponding  material   substances 
and  forms ;  all  created  things,  from  lowest  to  highest,  being 
distinct  but  progressive  links  in  the  Divine  method  and 
plan  of  Creation.      Thus,  though  there  undoubtedly  was 
in  Creation  a  progressive  development  from  the  earliest  and 
simplest  to  the  latest  and  highest  forms,  yet  this  progres- 
sion was  from  within  outwards,  and  not  from  without  in- 
wards; that  is,  from  internal  to  external,  and  not  from 
external  to  internal.     All  things  are  created  and  continu- 
ally controlled  by  the  Love  and  Wisdom  of  God,  according 
to  a  Divinely  perfect  plan  and  fixed  laws,  and  for  a  Divine 
end,  this  end  being  the  creation  of  man,  and  the  forma- 
tion of  the  human  race  into  an  angelic  heaven. 

In  the  former  case  it  is  as  if  a  child  with  its  play-box 
of  bricks,  or  an  ignorant  mason  without  any  knowIed«'e  of 
architecture,  were  to  lay  brick  upon  brick,  and,  by ''some 
chance  or  law  inherent  in  the  bricks,  they  succeeded  in 
constructing— evolving  or  developing— a  magnificent  cathe- 
dral.    In  the  latter  case  it  is  as  if  a  clever  architect  re- 
solves to  build  a  cathedral,  and,  by  a  process  of  spiritual 
and  mental  affliction  and  thought,  lie  first  builds  in  his  mind 
the  entire  structure;  then,  according  to  a  definite  plan  and 
fixed   laws,  he  directs  the  masons,  and,  brick  by  brick 
stone  by  stone,   evolves   the  finished   structure,   with    its 
sculptured  arches,  its  traceried  windows,  and  its  graceful 
spire. 

The  Darwinian  theory  involves  the  assertion,  that  man 
is  but  a  sentient  automaton — the  mechanical  combination 
crystallization,  or  intei  action  and  affinity  of  certain  inor- 


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ganic  elements,  such  as   oxygen,  hydrogen,  carbon,  etc. 
Thus  it  supposes  that  the  power  of  progressive  development 
resides  entirely  in  the  inert  material  substances,  and,  there- 
fore, that  mind  is  but  a  development — a  form  and  combina- 
tion of  matter  and  force.     (A  believer  in  the  Darwinian 
theory  once  said  to  the  writer  that  a  grape  which  he  was 
then  eating  might  become  the  germ  of  a  future  thought.) 
Tlierefore  this  theory  does  not,  and  indeed  cannot,  define 
how  or  Wty  "  matter,''  and  the  "  laws'  which  pervade  and 
control  matter,  first  came  into  existence.     It  does  not  ex- 
plain  the  origin  or  primary  cause  of  that  "  life'  which 
animates  each  organized  form.     It  does  not  account  for  the 
varied  modifications  of  external  form  and  interior  structure, 
nor  for  the  perfect  adaptation  of  every  part  of  each  organ- 
ism to  accomplish  its  own  special  work  in  the  economy  of 
Creation.     And  it  in  no  way  accounts  for  the  existence  of 
those  spiritual  and  mental  faculties  and  aspirations  which 
di.stinguish   man  from  all  other  created  things.     Neither 
conscience,  freedom,  with  its  moral  responsibility,  the  im- 
mortality of  the  human  soul,  trust  in  the  Divine  Providence, 
nor  belief  in  God  as  our  Heavenly  Father  find  any  place 
in  its  cold  and  heartless  philosophy.     Successful  struggle 
for  existence  and  "  survival  of  the  fittest"  is  therefore,  ac- 
cording to  this  theory,  the  only  end  of  man's  automatic  and 
irresponsible  actions. 

The  New  Church  philosophy  asserts  that  all  things  are 
continually  sustained  by  an  all-loving,  all-wise  Creator — 
preservation  being  perpetual  creation :  the  external  form 
and  interior  structure  of  each  created  thing  being  so  con- 
stituted as  to  be  fitting  recipients  of  that  life  which  unceas- 
ingly proceeds  from  God.  This  inflowing  life  is  modified 
in  its  manifestation  according  to  its  recipient  forms,  and 


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according  to  the  specific  use  for  which  they  are  created  ; 
thus  it  is  that  every  part  of  each  organism  is  perfectly 
adapted  to  accomplish  its  own  special  work.  Man  is  not 
a  merely  automatic  recipient  of  life  from  God;  but,  different 
from  all  other  created  forms,  he  is  endowed  by  his  Creator 
with  rationality,  liberty,  and  immortality ;  therefore  he  is 
a  responsible  being,  having  within  him  all  the  faculties 
necessary  to  his  endless  progression  in  spiritual  as  well  as 
in  natural  things,  and  having  duties  to  perform  towards 
God  and  his  neighbor  as  well  as  to  himself. 

To  suppose  that  a  germ  was  created,  or,  as  the  Darwinian 
theory  supposes,  by  some  unknown  process  came  into  ex- 
istence, containing  the  inherent  power  to  develop  into  the 
numberless  forms  of  use  and  beauty  in  the  world  around 
us,  would  be  to  suppose  that  such  a  germ  was  in  itself  a 
microcosm — a  little  world  ;  and  even  that  such  germ  had 
within  it  the  power  and  attributes  of  a  Creator.  The 
various  forms  of  creation,  prior  to  man,  were  all  prophetic 
and  typical  of  the  coming  human  race ;  but  man  alone,  as 
the  New  Church  teaches,  is  the  microcosm — the  epitome 
of  the  macrocosm,  or  the  great  world. 

The  New  Church  teaches  that  each  created  form  in  the 
world  of  nature  has  its  distinctive  Spiritual  essence,  which 
is  its  animating  formative  soul ;  and  that  both  the  essence 
and  form  are  intimately  connected  by  a  spiritual  law — the 
law  of  Analogy  or  Correspondence,  that  is,  the  mutual  re- 
lation of  form  to  essence,  of  essence  to  form.  Grantin*^. 
for  the  sake  of  argument,  that  the  first  material  human 
body  was  conceived  in  the  womb  of  a  female  ape,  from 
whence  did  the  human  essence  or  soul — the  seat  of  spiritual 
and  mental  consciousness  and  intelligence — first  come? 
Surely  it  is  too  gross  a  thought  to  suppose  that  the  first 


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human  soul,  with  all  its  possibilities  and  capabilities  of  un- 
endinjj;  progress  and  development,  its  rationality  and  liberty, 
its  conscience  and  aspirations  after  immortality,  had  an  ape 
essence,  an  ape  father  (for  the  New  Church  teaches  that 
the  soul  is  from  God  mediately  through  the  father).  Even 
supposing  that  God,  without  the  agency  of  a  male  ape,  used 
the  womb  of  a  female  ape  (or  of  any  other  animal)  merely 
as  a  matrix  for  the  first  human  germ,  the  "  evolution"  of 
man  through  such  a  medium  involved  as  great  or  even 
a  greater  miracle  than  his  "  creation"  without  any  such 
ape  medium,  in  God's  own  *'  image." 

Admitting,  as  all  believers  in  New  Church  philosophy 
are  supposed  to  do,  the  existence  of  an  all-loving,  all- wise 
Creator,  surely  it  is  not  more  difficult  to  believe  that  distinct 
and  successive  species  were  created  from  distinct  and  suc- 
cessive spiritual  causes,  than  it  is  to  believe  that  a  germ 
could  be  created  capable  of  evolution  or  development  into 
all  other  forms,  including  man  ;  the  latter  would  certainly 
be  the  greater  miracle.  Man  alone,  of  all  created  forms, 
possesses  the  capability  or  possibility  of  containing  within 
his  nature  all  those  spiritual  affections  and  thoughts  of 
which  the  varied  forms  of  life  are  the  representative  types 
and  patterns ;  all  these  created  forms  being  types  of  some- 
thing in  man's  soul,  and,  in  the  case  of  good  and  orderly 
forms,  primarily,  of  something  Divine  in  God. 

Another  argument  against  the  Darwinian  theory  of  Evo- 
lution is,  that  it  is  not  founded  upon  proven  scientific  facts  ; 
that  is,  science  has  not  yet  discovered  (and  the  writer  be- 
lieves mere  natural  science  never  can  discover)  the  exact 
process  or  law  whereby  inorganic  elements  become  organized 
into  vegetable  and  animal  forms.  Neither  does  this  theory 
of   Evolution    explain   why   vegetable   and    animal    forms 


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always  remain  such,  the  vegetable  never  developing  into 
the  animal,  or  the  animal  into  the  vegetable.  Doubtless  it 
is  difficult  to  discover  the  exact  difference  between  vegetable 
and  animal  protoplasm  (or  bioplasm).*  It  is  also  difficult 
in  the  lowest  forms  of  life  to  discern  between  vegetable  and 
animal  organisms;  and  even  the  animal  consciousness  which 
is  called  instinct  is,  in  some  cases,  scarcely  distinguishable 
from  the  unconscious  vitality  of  the  vegetable.  But,  ad- 
mitting this  difficulty,  it  only  shows  our  want  of  further 
knowledge;  and  there  is  no  reliable  scientific  evidence  what- 
ever that  vegetable  forms  ever  were  or  can  be  developed 
into  animal  forms,  or  vice  versa,  merely  by  a  varied  arrange- 
ment or  combination  of  their  component  inorganic  elements. 
This,  together  with  the  entire  absence  of  scientific  evi- 
dence that  any  vegetable  or  animal  species  ever  developed 
into  a  distinctly  higher  species,  are  powerful  arguments  in 
favor  of  the  doctrine  that  each  distinct  species,  from  lowest 
to  highest,  had  a  distinct  spiritual  origin.  It. is  true  that 
chemical  and  microscopical  analyses  demonstrate  that  similar 


*  Protoplasm,  otherwise  cal'-ed  bioplasm, — ^j"rjii^  matter, — is  the 
scientific  term  given  to  the  P.rst  extremely  minute  visible  forms  of 
life,  in  the  process  whereby  '.norganic  elements  become  organized  into 
veo-ctable  and  animal  tissues.  Both  vegetable  and  animal  bioplasts 
live,  move,  grow,  multiply,  and  change  dead  matter  into  living  matter ; 
but  in  one  case  the  re«;ult  is  a  leaf,  a  flower,  a  fruit,  a  seed,  or  some 
vitalized  structure  hfving  relation  to  a  complete  vegetable  form,  and 
in  the  other  case  the  result  is  a  nerve,  a  muscle,  a  tendon,  a  bone,  or 
some  animated  pieoc  of  mechanism  having  relation  to  a  complete 
animal  form.  7'//c  cause  of  all  atnictnral  oryauization  is  the  sentient 
spiritu'il  ''life"  within  ;  this  it  is  which  not  only  organizes  the  tiny 
ve<'etahle  and  animal  bioplasts,  but,  it  unceasingly  animates  and  guides 
their  marvellous  operations,  constructing  and  sustaining,  through  their 
unconscious  agency,  al!  the  complex  living  machinery  in  the  vegetable 
and  animal  kingdcma,  including  the  material  body  of  man. 


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inorganic  elements  enter  into  each  of  the  three  kingdoms 
of  nature ;  but  the  life  or  vital  force  and  the  all-pervading 
laws  which  operate  to  produce,  from  similar  elements,  the 
distinct  and  varied  mineral,  vegetable,  and  animal  forms 
are  beyond  the  reach  of  such  analyses.  The  operation  of 
this  living  force  and  of  these  laws  is  so  undeviating  that  it 
is  in  appearance  automatic,  similar  effects  always  resulting 
from  similar  conditions ;  hence  it  has  been  erroneously  con- 
cluded that  the  life  is  inherent  in  the  inorganic  elements 
themselves,  and  that  the  varied  forms  of  use  and  beauty 
are  merely  the  result  of  a  varied  combination,  interaction, 
and  affinity  of  those  elements.  Therefore  the  Darwinian 
theory  of  Evolution,  with  all  deductions  drawn  therefrom, 
being  based  upon  these  external  appearances,  rather  than 
upon  a  knowledge  of  the  interior  laws  whereby  the  creative 
life  operates,  must  necessarily  be  untrustworthy  and  falla- 
cious. 

The  real  .truth  is,  that  Itye  is  spiritual ;  all  organized 
material  forms  being  visible  manifestations  and  ultimate 
embodiments  of  that  spiritual  life.  It  is  a  something  in 
the  life  and  in  its  varied  method  or  laic  of  operation 
which  constitutes  the  actual  difference  between  the  inorganic 
and  organic,  between  the  vegetable  and  animal,  and,  most 
of  all,  between  the  merely  animal  and  man.  Creative  Life 
is  always  intelligently  operating  according  to  a  definite  plan 
and  fixed  laws ;  the  working  out  of  that  plan,  in  all  its 
wonderful  manifestations,  attesting  the  existence  of  one 
Personal  Divine  Being  whom  we  call  God, — the  infinite 
Source  of  all  Life,  Intelligence,  Substance,  and  Law,  and 
who  has  revealed  Himself  to  us  as  the  Lord  and  Saviour 
Jesus  Christ, — the  visible  God  in  whom  is  the  invisible. 
The  fact  that  God  always  acts  according  to  a  definite  plan 


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and  fixed  laws,  in  no  degree  involves  any  limitation  of  His 
Power.  Law  implies  Intelligence,  and  therefore  the  mani- 
festation of  law  in  all  the  works  of  Creation  incontcstably 
proves  that  God's  Power  acts  intelligently  and  according  to 
the  wisest  method  that  His  infinite  Love  and  Wisdom  can 
devise.  Without  Intelligence  there  can  he  no  Law^  with- 
out  Law  there  can  he  no  Order,  and  without  Order  no 
good  or  useful  work  can  ever  he  accomplished. 

This  subject  would  be  incomplete  without  some  notice 
of  development  in  its  higher  aspect,  as  effected  in  each 
human  being  during  the  process  of  regeneration.  In  the 
work  of  regeneration,  that  is,  the  new  birth  of  the  human 
soul  into  a  true  and  perfect  man,  there  is  a  process  of  men- 
tal and  spiritual  development,  each  succeeding  and  higher 
affection  in  the  perfecting  soul  being  a  progressive  develop- 
ment, not  from,  but  still  dependent  upon,  each  preceding 
affection ;  even  as  each  succeeding  and  higher  material  form 
in  the  work  of  creation  was  a  progressive  development,  not 
from,  but  still  dependent  upon,  previously  existing  forms. 
But  each  material  form  in  the  process  of  creation,  and  each 
spiritual  affection  in  the  process  of  regeneration,  are  only 
distinct  steps  in  the  Divine  plan  of  progress ;  and  the  writer 
can  no  more  believe  that  the  first  and  lowest  material  form 
contained  the  power,  inherent  in  itself,  to  develop  into  a 
sheep  or  tiger,  a  dove  or  eagle,  a  monkey  or  a  man,  than 
he  can  believe  that  the  first  and  lowest  affection  in  the  human 
mind  has  the  inherent  power  to  develop  itself  into  a  perfect 
man,  free  from  all  impurity  and  sin. 

The  theory  of  Natural  Selection,  that  is,  the  varia- 
tions of  structural  form  resulting  from  change  in  surround- 
ing conditions,  and  the  consequent  increased  use  or  disuse 
of  certain  organs,  which,  to  some  extent,  forms  part  of  the 


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Darwinian  theory  of  evolution,  may  be,  and  no  doubt  is, 
in  a  limited  degree,  true.  The  same  is  true,  also,  in  a 
limited  deyree,  spiritually  as  well  as  naturally,  the  various 
aflfections  and  aspirations  in  each  individual  being  capable 
of  adaptation  to  the  ever-varying  conditions  by  which  he 
is  surrounded.  But  this  process  of  adaptation  or  natural 
selection  is  not  essentially  progressive,  heing  limited  ivithin 
the  same  species;  and,  simihirly,  new  and  successively 
hiixher  affections  must  be  formed  before  regeneration  is 
complete,  even  as  new  and  successively  higher  species  were 
formed  in  the  process  of  creation. 

Both  creation  and  regeneration  require  the  unceasing 
exercise,  supervision,  and  creative  power  of  the  Love  and 
Wisdom  of  God,  without  which  all  created  things  would 
cease  to  exist.  But  man,  unlike  all  other  created  forms, 
and  by  virtue  of  his  endowments  of  liberty  and  rationality, 
has  the  power  either  to  resist  the  loving  efforts  of  his 
Creator,  and  so  remain  in  his  carnal  or  unregenerate  state, 
or  to  co-operate  with  his  Creator,  and  develop  or  progress 
into  a  perfect  man — the  "  likeness"  as  well  as  the  "  image" 
of  God.  All  reason,  experience,  and  revelation  prove,  to 
the  unbiassed  rational  mind,  that  man  is  not  evolved  from 
any  lower  animal ;  he  differs  from  them  all  fundamentally, 
— physically,  mentally,  spiritually, — and  therefore  the  origin 
and  end  of  his  existence  differ  from  theirs  also.  Man,  the 
noblest  work  of  the  Divine  Architect  of  the  Universe,  is 
human  because  God  is  Divinely  Human;  that  is,  he  is  man 
because  God  is  Essential  Man,  or  God-Man. 

Such,  in  brief,  and  in  the  writer's  opinion,  is  the  only 
doctrine  of  Creation  consistent  with  the  beautiful  system 
of  New  Church  philosophy,  and  he  earnestly  recommends 
all  who  are  interested  in  this,  at  the  present  time,  most  im- 


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portant  subject,  to  study  carefully  and  impartially  Sweden- 
borg's  magnificent  work  entitled  ''  Angelic  Wisdom  Con- 
cerning the  Divine  Love  and  the  Divine  Wisdom  ;"  for  in 
its  pag'^es,  and  not  in  the  writings  of  Darwin  or  his  disciples, 
i         will  be  found  the  true  Key  to  the  mysteries  of  Creation. 
This  information  is  chiefly  contained  in  the  section  which 
treats  of  the  two  suns,— one  spiritual  and  living,  and  the 
other  natural  and  inert  or  dead,— and  in  the  section  which 
explains  the  doctrine  of  Degrees.*     The  philosophy  con- 
tained  in  this  work  also  teaches  that  all  things  in  the  ma- 
terial world— mineral,  vegetable,   and  animal,  with   their 
wonderful  and  beautiful  variations  of  form  and  structure- 
are  created  by  God  for  man's  use,  and  that  through  the 
orderly  use  of  all  things  by  man  there  is  conjunction  be- 
tween God  and  man,  and  thence  with  even  the  least  things 
of  creation.     The  monad,  fish,  bird,  and  other  animals,  the 
i         wondrous  flower  and  majestic  tree,  the  everlasting  mountains 
and  hills,  the  mighty  ocean  and  mysterious  firmament,  may 
all  exist  spiritually  in  each  human  soul ;  and  if  each  aff"e<J- 
tion  and  thought,  to  which  these  things  correspond,  be  kept 
in  their  proper  place  by  a  loving  and  active  obedience  to 
the  Lord's  commandments,  all  things,  under  the  Lord's 
Divine  Providence,  will  be  adapted  to  each  man's  use  in 
the  process  of  his  regeneration,  until  he  stand  forth  a  fin- 
ished structure— a  perfect  man.     Only  by  this  spiritual 
system  of  progression  or  development  can  man  attain  unto 
the  "  fulness  of  God,"  unto  the  "  measure  of  the  stature 
i         of  the  fulness  of  Christ." 


♦  These  subjects  are  briefly  explained  in  the  Appendix. 


TT" 


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APPENDIX. 


APPENDIX. 

CREATION. 


A  BRIEF  OUTLINE    OP    ITS    PHILOSOPHY   AS   TAUGHT   IN 
SWEDENBORG's   THEOLOGICAL    WRITINGS. 

God  is  not  a  mere  formless  all-pervading  ethereal  essence, 
without  body,  parts,  or  passions ;  but  He  is  an  infinitely 
glorious  Divine  Man, — our  Heavenly  Father, — whose 
essential  attributes  are  Love,  Wisdom,  and  Life  or  Power. 
God  is  the  one  self-existent  Personal  Being, — the  I  AM, — 
above  and  independent  of  all  space  and  time — Omnipotent, 
Omniscient,  Omnipresent.  God  is  Divinely  Human,  and  the 
Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ  is  the  manifestation 
and  embodiment  of  the  substance  of  the  invisible  God, 
who,  prior  to  His  Incarnation^  wiis  called  Jehovah.  God 
is  the  only  self-subsist inc/  Life  and  Substance — the  First 
Creative  Cause  of  all  things.  God  creates  all  things  from 
His  own  Life  and  Substance  ;*  but  He  so  creates  them  thnt 
they  form  no  part  o/*  His  own  Life  and  Substance.  All 
orderly  things  first  exist  suhjectively  in  the  mind  of  God ; 
then,  by  their  actual  creation,  though  they  are  still  unceas- 


*  This  statement  must  not  be  understood  in  a  Pantheistic  sense ; 
no  theory  differs  from  the  teaching  of  the  New  Church  more  widelj 
than  Psintheism.  The  deification  of  nature,  that  is,  the  worship  of 
the  visible  material  universe  as  the  only  God,  is  not  only  an  absolute 
denial  of  God  ns  a  conscious  and  intelligent  Personal  Creator, — a 
loving  and  wise  Heavenly  father, — but  it  is  destructive  of  all  true  re- 
ligion and  worship,  and  of  belief  in  a  future  state  of  existence.  It 
is  written,  "God  is  a  Spirit :  and  they  that  icorahip  Ilim  viutit  icornhip 
Him  in  spirit  and  in  truth." 


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ingly  sustained  by  Him,  they  exist  objectively  out  of  Him. 
In  God  all  things  are  uncreate  and  infinite;  by  creation 
they  become  limited  and  finite.  Divine  Life  and  Substance, 
in  their  first  descent  from  God,  become  life  and  substance 
such  as  exist  in  the  spiritual  world ;  and  in  their  further 
descent  become  life  and  substance  such  as  exist  in  the 
natural  or  material  world.  Thus  there  is  the  Divine,  the 
spiritual,  and  the  natural  or  material,— God,  spirit,  and 
matter,— which  are  to  each  other  as  end,  cause,  and  effect 
The  end  or  purpose  of  Creation  exists  in  the  mind  of  God ; 
the  spiritual  world  is  the  mediate  creative  cause  through 
which  God  operates ;  and  the  effect  is  the  created  material 
univei-se.  All  things  exist  after  this  order  of  Degrees. 
The  material  world  exists  from  the  spiritual  world,  as  an 
effect  from  its  cause,  and  both  the  spiritual  and  material 
worlds,  with  all  their  varied  forms  of  life,  exist  from  God 

their  Creator. 

The  spiritual  world— the  world  in.  which  all  spiritual 
substances  and  vital  forces  exist,  and  in  which  a  man's  soul 
or  spirit  lives  forever  after  its  separation  from  the  dead  ma- 
terial body— is  a  real,  substantial,  habitable  world;  in  it 
there  are  atmospheres,  waters,  earths,  and  all  things  needful 
for  the  sustenance  and  happiness  of  its  inhabitants.  These 
things  are  not  natural  or  material,  as  is  the  world  of  nature, 
but  they  are  spiritually-substantial.  All  things  derive  their 
existence  from  the  united  operation  of  heat  and  light ;  and 
the  spiritual  world  has  its  sun,  the  heat  and  light  of  which 
are  media  whereby  life  and  substance  from  God  are  con- 
veyed to  all  things  in  that  world,  and  thence,  through  the 
medium  of  the  natural  sun,  to  all  things  in  the  natural 
world.  The  sun  of  the  spiritual  world  is  not  God,  but  is 
the  Divine  Sphere  which  emanates  immediately  from  God; 


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APPENDIX. 


its  heat  being  the  effluence  of  His  Divine  Love,  and  its 
light  being  the  effluence  of  His  Divine  Wisdom.     From 
its  heat,  man,  as  to  his  soul  or  spiritual  being,  mediately 
derives  from  God  his  love  or  affection,  and  from  its  lin'ht 
he  mediately  derives  from  God  his  wisdom  or  intelligence^ 
The  united  love  and  wisdom  thus  received  constitute  the 
spiritual  life  of  his  soul,  even  as  the  united  heat  and  light 
proceeding  from   the   natural  sun   constitute  the   mediate 
source  of  life  from  God  to  man's  natural  body.     The  spirit- 
ual world  does  not  form  any  part  of  the  material  universe ; 
nor  is  it  at  some  infinite  distance  from  man  ;  his  soul  or 
spirit  even  during  his  earthly  life  being  intimately  connected 
with  it,  and,  indeed,  although  unconsciously,  in  it.     The 
place  called  heaven  is  in   the  spiritual  world,  and  is  the 
permanent  abode  of  angels,  who  are  i\\Q '' spirits  of  JMt 
men  made  perfect;"  whereas   the   material  world   is  the 
temporary  abode  of  men  who  are  created  to  become  angels. 
The  place  called  hell  b  also  in  the  spiritual  world ;  it  is 
the  abode  provided  for  all  those  who,  by  a  life  oUontinued 
and  wilfid  sin^  have  voluntarily  become  confirmed  in  the 
love  of  evil,  and  thus  have  entirely  destroyed  Conscience 
within  themselves.* 

*'God  is  Lovcy''  and  because  it  is  of  the  very  essence 


•  Heaven  is  not  a  place  of  eternal  reward  for  good  actions  done 
during  this  life,  nor  is  hell  a  place  of  eternal  punishment  for  sins 
committed  during  this  life;  but,  primarily  and  fundamentally,  they 
arc  «(ate9  and  conditions  of  the  hnman  mind  and  character,  voluntarily 
acquired  and  conQrmod— in  the  former  case  by  the  orderly  use,  and 
in  ihe  latter  case  by  the  continued  wilful  perversion  and  abuse,  of  the 
faculties  with  which  man  is  endowed  by  God.  The  happiness  of 
heaven  is  inherent  in  the  love  of  doing  good  from  the  unselfish  desire 
to  serve  others;  and  the  misery  of  hell  is  inherent  in  the  confirmed 
love  of  doing  evil  from  the  unrestrained  Ipve  of  self. 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CREATION, 


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of  pure  love  to  desire  that  what  is  its  own  may  become  an- 
other's, therefore  God  creates  man,  and  endows  him  with 
rationality,  freedom,  and  immortality  to  the  end  that  He 
may  forever  have  beings  to  love,  who  can  freely  and  intelli- 
gently reciprocate  His  love.     Man  is  endowed  by  God  with 
two  faculties— the  Will  and   the  Understanding;    these, 
tliough  distinct  from  each  other,  are  so  created  as  to  form 
a  on^,  called  the  Mind.     Into  his  Wiil  the  I^ve  of  God 
60  flows  that  it  becomes  human  love— the  source  of  the 
affections.     Into  his  Understanding  the  Wisdom  of  God  so 
flows  that  it  becomes  human  wisdom— the  source  of  the 
thoughts  and  intelligence ;  and  thereby  man  is  enabled  in- 
telligently to  love  and  serve  God,  and  to  love,  think,  live, 
and°perform  uses  as  a  human  being.     Freedom  and  love 
are  inseparable,  that  is,  freedom  is  inherent  in  love  ;  and 
man  being  created  to  find  his  supreme  happiness  in  the 
voluntary  exercise  of  his  love  or  affections,  he  is,  of  neces- 
sity, endowed  by  his  Creator  with  freedom  of  Will,  or 
freedom  of  choice  between  good  and  evil ;  in  other  words, 
between  the  love  of  serving  God  and  his  neighbor,  and  the 
inordinate  love  of  himself.      Hence  it  is  that  man,  through 
the  abuse  of  that  freedom  with  which  he  is  endowed  by 
God,  to  the  end  that  he  may  be  truly  happy,  has  the  power 
HO  to  pervert  his  nature  that,  if  he  choose,  it  may  become 
the  very  opposite  of  God's  nature;  that  is,  instead  of  being 
loving,  wise,  and  useful  he  may  become  entirely  evil.    And 
it  is  lolely  from  mans  wilfid  perversion  and  abuse  of  his 
freedom  that  "  sm,"  with  all  its  attendant  miseries,  origi- 
nated and  still  exists. 

Man  is  so  created,  that,  during  his  life  in  the  world  of 
nature,  he  is  in  reality  an  inhabitant  of  both  the  material 
and  spiritual  worlds— consciously  of  the  former,  uncon- 


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APPENDIX. 


sciously  of  tlie  latter.     He  has  a  soul  or  spirit,  which  is 
an  organized  spiritually-sulstantial  human  form,  composed 
of  such  substances  as  exist  in  the  spiritual  world ;  and  he 
has  a  body  organized  and  composed  of  such  substances  as 
exist  in  the  material  world.     The  material  body  in  and  of 
itself  is  dead  and  without  sensation,  it  being  merely  a  re- 
ceptacle animated  or  vitalized  by  the  soul.     Thus  the  body 
exists  from  the  soul,  and  both  soul  and  body  exist  from 
God  their  Creator.     After  what  is  called  death,  that  is, 
after  the  final  separation  of  the  immortal  soul  from  the 
dead  material  body,  man  comes  into  the  full  consciousness 
and  activity  of  his  internal  or  spiritual  life,  and  he  then 
•possesses  senses  and  faculties  perfectly  adapted  to  the  spirit- 
ual world,  even  as  during  his  earthly  life  he  possesses  senses 
and  faculties  perfectly  adapted  to  the  material  world.    Man 
is  born  into  the  material  world  that,  during  a  life  of  active 
and  unselfish  usefulness,  he  may  prepare  for  an  eternity 
of  usefulness  and   happiness  in  the  spiritual  world.     By 
this  means,  after  the  termination  of  his  earthly  life,  he  be- 
comes an  angel,  and  lives  with  God  in  heaven  forever,  thm 
realizing  the  "  end''  for  which  he  is  created. 


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B.  F.  Barrett 28 

2.  The  Church  of  the  New  Jerusalem.    By  Rev.  C.  Giles 32 

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11.  What  is  Heaven?     From  Swedenborg 8 

12.  "The  Anger  of  the  lx>rd."    How  is  .such  Scripture  Phraseology 

to  be  Explained? •••♦• 20 

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14.  The  Sacred  Scripture.    Its  own  answer  to  the  question:   Has  it  a 

Sense  within  or  above  that  of  the  Letter? 20 

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21.  Who  is  our  Neighbor/     From  Swedenborg 8 

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DOCTRINAL   LECTURES. 

By  Rev.  C'haiiiicey  Oilen. 

Who  Was  Jesus  Christ? 24 

How  Does  the  Lord  Save  Men  ? 24 

The  Suflerings  and  Death  of  Jesus  Christ 22 

The  Saving  Efficacy  of  the  Lords  Blood 16 

The  Punishment  of  Sin 22 

The  Forgiveness  of  Sin ".""  24 

Purification  from  Sin  Illustrated  by  the  Refining  of  Gold  and 

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The  New  and  the  Old  Atonement 24 

Union  with  the  Lord:  Its  Nature,  Means,  and  Blessedness. 24 

The  Spiritual  Wants  of  the  Age 24 

The  True  Idea  of  God 24 

The  True  Idea  of  Man ., *.***."  24 

The  S|piritual  World .....Z.  24 

The  World  of  Spirits,  or  Intermediate  State 23 

The  World  of  Spirits  the  Place  of  Man's  Final  Judgment 24 

The  World  of  Spirits  as  a  Place  (or  Stato)  of  Instruction  and 

Preparation  for  Heaven 04 

Hell:  Its  Origin  and  Nature ^e 

The  Sufferings  of  the  Wicked 04 

The  Sufferings  of  the  Wicked.    Are  they  Endless? 23 

Heaven:    What  it  is.    Where  and  How  Formed 22 

The  Conditions  of  Heavenly  Happiness 24 

Heavenly  Happiness :  Endless  and  Ever  Increasing. 28 


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SERMONS. 

The  Light  of  the  World 16 

The  Elements  of  a  Heavenly  Character 16 

Ivove:  The  Light  and  .Toy  of  Life 16 

Onyx  .Stones;  or.  The  Book  of  Life 16 

The  Widow's  Plot  of  Oil 16 

The  Coming  of  the  New  Age -  24 

Rest  for  the  Wean-  and  Heavy  Laden 14 

The  Mini.str>'  of  Fear 16 

What  is  Evangelical  Religion? 14 

The  Conquest  over  Evil  by  Little  and  Little 16 

Mo<lern  Un)>olief:   Its  Cause,  Nature,  and  Remedy 16 

The  Resurrection  of  tlie  Ix)rd !•'» 

The  I/aw8  of  Ascent  from  a  Natural  to  a  Heavenly  Life 16 

Unitv  Among  Brethren:  Its  Origin,  Means,  and  Effects 16 

The  doctrines  of  the  New  Church,  the  Mea.sure  of  a  Man 16 

The  Death  of  the  Body  a  Ministry  of  Life  to  Man 15 

The  Divine  Providence  in  National  Affairs 16 

Efficacious  Praver:  The  Conditions  on  which  It  Is  Answered 16 

The  Nature  and  Use  of  Praver 16 

lyove  of  the  Ix)rd.    What  it  is,  and  how  manifested 16 

Tlie  Church  of  the  Future 16 

The  Law  of  Heavenly  Rewards « 12 

Man's  Immeasurable  Capacity  to  Love,  to  Know,  and  to  Ei\}oy.~  16 

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1.  The  Irrationality  of  Skepticism 12 

2.  Preserve  the  Foundations 14 

8.  The  Lesson  of  the  Harvest 12 

4.  Faith  and  Prayer 12 

5.  The  Divine  Humanity 11 

6.  The  Lord  Jesus  Christ  Glorified , »...,........* 18 

7.  The  Lord's  Care  for  the  Little  Ones 11 

8.  The  Value  of  True  Doctrine 12 

9.  The  Doctrine  of  the  Lord  in  its  Relation  to  Life 12 

10.  The  Doctrine  of  the  Divine  Nature  and  Providence  in  its  Relation 

to  Life 12 

11.  The  Doctrine  of  the  Sacred  Scriptures  In  its  Relation  to  Life.. 12 

12.  The  Doctrine  of  Faith  in  its  Relation  to  Life 11 

13.  The  Duty  of  Shunning  Evils  as  Sins  Against  God 11 

14.  Charity,  as  Consisting  ni  a  Life  of  Usefulness 12 

ir>.  The  Other  Life,  and  what  the  Scriptures  Teach  Respecting  it 12 

Itt.  The  Beauty  of  Holiness 14 

17.  Conjunction  with  the  Lord 11 

18.  The  Mightiness  of  Love 12 

19.  The  Food  of  the  Soul 12 

20.  The  Nature  and  Uses  of  Sleep 12 

27.  Sheep  and  Shepherd 11 

2A  The  Tree  of  Life  and  the  Tree  of  Knowledge 11 

*J9.  The  Commandment  Respecting  the  Sabbath 12 

30.  Going  up  to  Jerusalem U 

81.  The  Sin  of  Keeping  What  Belongs  to  Another 12 

32.  The  Slow  Dawning  of  the  New  Age .« 12 

83.  I^dby  Truth  and  Drawn  by  Love 12 

34.  TheSln  of  Suicide 12 

35.  Robes  Washed  In  the  Blood  of  the  Lamb n 

36.  False  and  I'rue  Worship ^  H 

87.  The  Serpent  and  the  Curse „..  12 

38.  The  One  Master,  and  the  Many  Brethren I8 

89.  Sanctifying  the  First-Born « „. u 

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21.  The  Nearness  and  Reality  of  the  Spiritual  World I6 

22.  Death,  Resurrection,  and  the  Life  Beyond if, 

23.  How  the  Sacred  Scripture,  or  the  Bible,  DifTers   from'other 

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24.  The  Law  of  Correspondence:  or.  The  Relation  between  Natural 

and  Spiritual  Things jg 

25.  The  Lord  Jesus  Christ    or,  God  in  His  Divine  Humanity*!!.".*.*.'.""*'    16 

26.  Redemption,  Atonement,  and  Man's  True  Relation  to  the  Lord...    16 

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DOCTRINES  OF  THE  NEW  CHURCH: 

WHAT  THEY  TEACH,  AND  WHAT  THEY  DO  NOT  TEACH. 

By  Rev.  Ctaanncey  Gilen. 

The  Church  of  the  Ne^y  Jerusalem :  What  It  is,  and  what  it  is  not**^ 

Man  as  a  Spirit:  What  he  Is,  and  what  he  is  not I6 

The  Divinity  of  the  Sacred  Scriptures:  What  it  is,  what  it  is  not.  24 

The  Death  of  the  Material  Body  Essential  to  Human  Happiness..  16 

Spiritual  Death :  Its  Nature,  Origin,  Delights,  and  Torments 21 

The  Resurrection  of  the  Soul  from  Spiritual  Death 22 

The  Resurrection  of  Man  from  the  >Iaterial  Bodv "  21 

Heavenly  Happiness:  Its  Principles  mid  Means  of  Attainment* .!  19 

Heaven  a  Society  of  Regenerated  Men  and  Women 16 

Misconceptions  of  the  Principles  and  Doctrines  of  the  New 

Church 20 

The  New  and  the  Old  Doctrine  of  the  Unity  and  Trinity TnG^^^^^^  20 

The  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Spirit  the  Three  Essentials  of  One  God.  20 

Probation:  Its  Nature  and  Limitations 20 

The  Final  Judgment  of  Man "  J* 

The  Angels:  Their  Origin,  Nature,  and  Relations  to'M*en !!.'!!!!!!!!!  20 

?!!!  P^vine  Providence  in  the  Government  of  Human  Affairs 20 

The  lx)rd  s  Divine  Human  the  Medium  of  Salvation 20 

Truth  Itself  the  Only  Infallible  Authority  for  Religious  Doctrine.  28 

The  New  Age ^  _^  20 

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MISCELLANEOUS  DISCOURSES. 

MO.  PA0K8. 

1.*  Salvation  Possible  to  all  Men.    By  Rev.  A.  F.  Frost 12 

2.  The  Principles  and  Functions  of  Ecclesiastical  Government    By 

Rev.  Chauncey  Giles 20 

3.  Changes  in  Faith:    Probation  and  Judgment.    By  Rev.  Oliver 
Dyer 20 

What  is  SwedenborKianlsm  ?    By  Rev.  J.  C.  Ager......^....... 82 

Manna.    By  Kev.  Abiel  Silver 16 

1  Loved  Jacob  and  I  Hated  Esau.   By  Rev.  Ablel  Silver 18 

Jesus  Walking  on  the  Sea.    By  Rev.  Chauncey  Giles 16 

All  the  Patlis  of  the  Lord  Mercy  and  Truth.    By  Rev.  Chauncey 

Giles - 16 

The  Lord  a  Refuge  in  Times  of  Trouble.    By  Rev.  Chauncey 

Giles ""  16 

The  Testimony  of  the  Lilies  to  the  Lord's  Provident  Care.  By 

Rev.  Chauncey  Giles 16 

11.  The  Book  of  Life.   By  Rev.  Chauncey  Giles 16 

12.  "Spiritualism."    The  Phenomenon  Explained  and  its  Dangers 

Shown.   ByRev.  L.  P.  Mercer 16 

13.  Man's  Ability  the  Measure  of  his  Obligation.    By  Rev.  Chauncey 

Giles 12 

14.  Emanuel  Swedenborg.    By  Rev.  J.  C.  Ager......... 82 

15.  Creation.    By  Rev.  John  Worcester 12 

16.  Is  the  New  Jerusalem  (or  Swedenborglan)  Church  a  Christian 

Church?    By  Rev.  E.  C.  Mitchell ..-  ^^ 

16G.  Why  is  a  Real  Spiritual  World  not  Material?    By  Rev.  John 

Goddard /. 12 

17.  Spiritual  Stewardship.    By  Rev.  J.  C.  Ager 32 

17G.  The  Second  Coming  of  the  Lord  in  the  Clouds  of  Heaven.    By 

Rev.  John  Goddard 16 

18.  The  Wilderness  Experience.    By  Rev.  John  Goddard 12 

18G.  Swedenborg  and  Modem  Spiritualism.    By  Rev.  John  Goddard.  16 

19.  The  Dangers  of  Spiritism.    By  Rev.  John  Groddard ~..  15 

20.  The  Old  and  the  New  Doctrine  of  how  the  Lord  Saves  Men.    By 

Rev.  John  Goddard —— «.«....  20 

The  Lord  our  Mediator.    By  Rev.  J.  S.  David - « 16 

Matter.    Bv  Rev.  S.  M.  Warren - 11 

ElTectual  braver.    By  Hon.  T.  A.  Plantz ~ 20 


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SPIRITUAL  NURTURE. 
By  Rev.  Channcey  Giles. 

no.  PA6M. 

1.  Spiritual  Nurture:  Its  Means,  Methods,  and  Importance 16 

2   I^rental  Responsibilities:  How  to  Meet  Them 16 

8.  The  Means  and  Methods  of  Cultivating  an  Affection  for  Re- 
ligious Truth 16 

4.  Obedience  to  Parents  and  the  Lord 15 

5.  How  to  Teach  our  Children  Fear,  Reverence,  and  Trust 16 

6.  How  to  Teach  our  Children  to  Love  the  Lord 15 

7.  Writing  the  Lord's  Word  upon  the  Posts  of  our  House  and  Gate*.  15 

8.  The  Rewards  of  Love  and  Obedience 16 

9.  The  Burdens  of  Life:  How  to  Cast  Them  on  the  Lord 16 

10.  The  Commandments  the  Infallible  Guide  to  every  Good 16 

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THE  GARDEN  OF  EDEN. 
By  ReT.  Chaancey  Otle«i. 

PAOM. 

Garden  of  Eden:  Where  it  is,  and  What  it  is 16 

Tree  of  Life  the  Symbol  of  Divine  Love 16 

Rivers  of  Eden  a  Symbol  of  Divine  Truth 16 

Tree  of  the  Knowledge  of  Good  and  Evil ~ 16 

Origin  of  Life:  Adam  Naming  the  Animals 16 

's  Deep  Sleep:  His  Rib  made  into  Woman 16 

Serpent  and  the  Woman:  The  Tempter  and  the  Tempted 16 

Curse  upon  the  Serpent 16 

Curse  upon  the  Woman 16 

Curse  upon  Man 16 

Expulsion  from  Eden 16 

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LABOR  AND  CAPITAL. 
By  Rev.  €lianncey  Giles. 

PA0C8. 

Labor  as  a  Curse  and  as  a  Blessing 16 

The  Conflict  between  Labor  and  Capital :  Its  Cause  and  Remedy.  16 

Mechanical  Employments  as  Means  of  Human  Culture 20 

The  Curse  and  the  Blessing  of  Riches 22 

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NEW  SERMONS. 
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1.  From  the  Earthly  to  the  Heavenly  Home 16 

2.  How  the  Lord  Prepares  a  Place  for  us  in  the  Heavenly  Mansions.  16 

3.  Going  to  the  Father 16 

4.  The  Birth  of  Jesus  Christ 15 

6.  The  Husbandman,  the  Vine,  and  the  Branches 16 

6.  How  to  Gain  the  Largest  and  Most  Precious  Good 16 

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10.  The  Lord  Knocking  at  the  Door 16 

11.  The  Signs  which  Follow  Belief. 16 

12.  Natural  Blindness  a  Type  of  Spiritual  Blindness 16 

13.  The  New  Covenant - 19 

14.  The  Keys  of  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven 19 

16.  The  New  Age  of  Christian  Thought  and  Life 24 

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NO.  PAar8. 

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MO.  PAQB8. 

1.  Was  ist  Swedenborgianismus?    Von  Rev.  J.  C.  Ager 82 

2.  Im  Ebenbild  Gottes.    Von  Rev.  Adolph  Roeder 15 

3.  Die  Geistige  Welt.    Von  Rev.  C.  Giles 28 

4.  Wachsthum  des  Neuen  Jerusalems  wMhrend  seines  ersten  Jahr- 

hunderts  in  Amerika.    Von  Rev.  C.  Giles 24 

5.  Das  Buch  des  Lebens.    Von  Rev.  C.  Giles «.  17 

6.  Die  wahre  Idee  von  Gott.    Von  Rev.  C.  Giles 25 

7.  Die  Welt  der  Geister.    Von  Rev.  C.  Giles 24 

8.  Die  wahre  Idee  von  Mann.    Von  Rev.  C.  Giles 26 

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